Football Poets

It takes many years of hurt
To learn how to blurt……
Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!

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small steps
on a long road
cobbled with miss-haps
yet hopefully
studded with glory

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usual story
penalty dilemma / curse
Pickford’s big strong hand!

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nerves were frayed, Kane calm
senses working overtime
ecstasy a […]

England facing
A rising tide
Of public expectation

Wild Boar FC
Face a rising tide
In monsoon season

Diving could yet be
The key to both

Priority haiku

Wild Boar football team
Trapped in underground caves
Hang in there boys!

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Brazil 2-0 Mexico

Samba stars shake hips
Neymar, Willian lead the dance
Brazil […]

Tap tap spread tap spread
Spain’s patience never wears thin
Mine does

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Too much play sideways
Not enough forward drive
Spain pay p […]

Messi Ronaldo
Lack of versed supporting cast
Exeunt stage left

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Changing of the guard
Two goals versus two assists
Mbappe trumps Leo

False formation

I need an angle
to describe the tangle
of daily matches

do I relate it back
to last weekend’s garden endeavours
when hacking away

at the thorny brambles
of fruit-bushes running w […]

B team v B team
gunpowder held in reserve
no fireworx

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the counting of cards
elimination ensues
galling Senegal

unbelievable
recent form for once was true
raus Deutschland, raus, raus!

Maradona hurts
Elimination side-stepped
Messi takes control

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It almost happened
Last sixteen without Messi?
Leo gets serious!

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When a draw will […]

Spain, Portugal through
VAR impacts two games
Iberian luck

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Maximum points
Uruguay boss the hosts
Reality check

six past Panama
all hail hat-trick hero Kane
perfick summer’s day

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Scorcher ‘n Score
just like Roy of the Rovers
hat-trick hero Kane

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Non-haiku…..

Everybody watched
Even Oss […]

Deutschland on the rocks
We thought the unthinkable
Then Kroos curls it home

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Son some strike
Chicharito leads the line
Hits half century

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Tunisia out
Les Diables Rouge at full […]

Costa Rica thwart
Coutinho leads the charge
Late, Late Show

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Politics abound
Kosovo flag on his boots
Shaqiri offends

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Pre-match:

Messi and complicated
all our lives can get […]

a dodgy keeper
giving us all the willies
Caballeroooooooh-no!

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Mbappe taps home
Les Blues looking cohesive
France advance

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VAR

VAR sees the smoking gun –
the sheriffs s […]

big boys out in force
Ronaldo, Suarez, Costa
who else of course

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one-nil common score
Morocco and Saudi out
alas already

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somersault throw-in
we all wanted to see it
aborted […]

Analysis paralysis

We talked and we discussed and we drew – diagrams
my team and I
all part of the day job;
and I’m sure
each and every player and squad member, from today’s (world elite) teams […]

Post-match….

stealing yards
and stealing points
does not a criminal make
but it does put a brake
on dashed dreams

it seems
we were just minutes
from another embarrassment
but all thanks to Harry K […]

Mexico 1-0 Germany

Germans so sluggish
Defending Champions lose
Mexico goes wild

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Serbia 1-0 Costa Rica

Serbia press hard
Kolarov fires home free kick
Costa Rica lose

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